Sentences with phrase «legal fight for»

Canada About Blog Animal Justice leads the legal fight for animals in Canada.

«OkCupid Experiment Proves Men Don't Mind Dating Sociopaths Main Cupid In Legal Fight For French Domain Name»

«We do respect the judgement, but are not satisfied,» said Dibakar Parichha, a Catholic priest and advocate who has coordinated the legal fight for the Kandhamal victims.

Seven months after finally opening Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach, its developers are embroiled in a nasty legal fight for control of the long - delayed, financially...

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The filing comes almost two years after the company ousted founder Dov Charney, who is locked in a legal fight and sued American Apparel for defamation.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

Toshiba wants to sell its share to offset massive losses in its Westinghouse nuclear power business, and Western Digital is leading a consortium that's bidding for that share, while at the same time engaging in a legal fight to stop the sale from going ahead unless it gets first refusal.

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

Opponents of legal weed in Oregon say they would take their fight to the Oregon legislature, pushing for stricter laws designed to limit access to pot by children, among other efforts.

The attorney representing Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney, made a statement that could have resounding implications for the ongoing legal fight with the porn actress Stormy Daniels.

Being at war is worse for a currency than not being at war, whether you're fighting the world's financial authorities for legal validity, or engaged in a guerrilla skirmish as either aggressor or victim.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx) said Monday that it agreed to sell Sprout back to its former shareholders, but the deal is actually more of a giveaway: All Valeant will receive in return for Sprout is 6 % of future sales of the female libido drug, starting around mid-2019, plus freedom from its remaining acquisition obligations and its legal fight with Sprout shareholders.

The difficult legal choices being weighed by the bank — should it settle or should it fight — coincide with an unusual wave of scrutiny for JPMorgan, which is now facing investigations from at least seven federal agencies, several state regulators and two foreign nations.

Mr. Thiel, who was last in the news for his financial support of Hulk Hogan's legal fight against Gawker Media, has a slate of political views that stand out of line with most in tech, and perhaps most Americans.

What are the cultural and legal changes we should all push for in the fight against the unacceptable status quo in many workplaces?

Over the course of his 25 - year legal career, he has tenaciously fought for the rights of consumers, concentrating his practice on consumer lending and consumer fraud class actions.

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Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

The nasty legal fight between Uber and Waymo over self - driving technology has officially come to a close, with Uber settling for $ 245 million.

However, the case hinges on issues the ride - hail company — which is no stranger to legal battles — has long fought across the globe: Background checks and being treated like other for - hire companies.

Trump... has increasingly complained in recent weeks that he needed to consider all options for fighting Mueller and not simply agree to an interview... other members of the legal team share Trump's view that they should take a more confrontational approach with the special counsel, including lawyer Jay Sekulow, who has urged the group to consider the pros and cons of fighting a subpoena, according to people familiar with his advice.

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi — the cavaliere — has been successful in fighting off legal challenges ranging from sex with minors to alleged tax fraud involving humungous amounts for well over a decade.

First, patents are often taken out to use as legal weapons by huge companies to fight off their competitors even if they do not plan on completing trials for the drug.

The silver lining of Trump's abrupt announcement for opponents of the tariffs like Cohn is that it is still undergoing legal review, so there's still some time to fight over the details.

The porn actress alleging an affair with President Donald Trump is escalating her legal fight, suing the president for defamation.

He helped draft the «Defense of Marriage Act,» the 1996 law in which the federal government defines marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman, and is the author of «Fighting for America's Soul: How Sweeping Change Threatens Our Nation and What We Must Do.»

In some states, like Ohio, fights have broken out among anti-abortion activists over how to use their new - found power, with one faction pushing for sweeping new restrictions and the other urging more incremental limits that they say will withstand legal challenges.

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

For decades, American evangelicals have fiercely fought any legal or cultural limits on parents» «rights» to discipline their children.

CNN: «American Taliban» wins right to group prayer in prison The man known as the «American Taliban» won a legal fight that will allow him and fellow Muslim inmates to gather for daily prayers.

Who then will lead the fight for full legal rights and recognition of our moral minority in medicine or any other profession?

Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect «unborn persons,» and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments.

Far from clear, however, is whether any of these hard - fought legal wins represents significant progress for citizens resisting the cultural forces bent on constricting the....

«In the United States, hate speech is legal (except for obscenity, defamation, incitement to riot, and fighting words).

Bowman was recently charged with tax evasion, but he fought the case, and earlier this month, he won a major legal victory, and the charges were dropped — for now.

Charlie Gard's parents have ended their legal fight over treatment for the terminally - ill baby.

The same goes for shows of fighting cocks and bullfights, which are legal entertainment in some countries.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

The Western Australian Pastoralists and Graziers Association was quick to throw its support behind Mr Baxter, creating a «fighting fund» to collect donations for his legal costs.

The very next season is the year we went for Suarez and failed due to an inexperienced backroom staff making offers and not fighting for them, If Liverpool lied about the release clause then we could have sued them for bullshitting about a legal document.

The UFC strawweight prospect from Sacramento, Calif., who holds a medical marijuana card in California, where cannabis is legal for both medicinal and recreational purposes, fought at UFC 219 in Las Vegas, Nev. — a state where the drug is also legal for both purposes.

For more than five years, New Jersey has been fighting to bring legal sports betting to the Garden State.

And while she writes that, it's revolutionary to be «fighting for marriage to be about love and companionship — and not about a strictly gendered economic or social power construct,» she misses the point that same - sex couples already had love and companionship — what they wanted, and needed, were the legal and financial perks and protections marriage grants them.

Christina Strickland is fighting for the right to be the legal parent of her son.

Woman are fighting for their already established legal rights to breastfeed in the courtroom, national museums and government buildings.

Women raising children and without much income can use taxpayer funds (through Legal Aid — for example) to fight a divorce, only paying the Crown back if they get a sufficiently large settlement.

It's the company that makes much of sourcing less than 3 % of its cocoa through Fairtrade - certified suppliers, while fighting a legal battle against former child slaves who hold it responsible for their treatment on cocoa plantations in Sierra Leone.

I'd much rather fight for the legal right of older women to adopt babies, than to rule out it's alright to get pregnant out of wedlock.

The loss of that 25 - year relationship with a sympathetic hospital has left some home - birth midwives not only fighting for the legal viability of their practice but having to justify their very existence.